"Hi", I say, very awkwardly, because I don't know what you're supposed to say to a girl who is also a grown woman, a fictional character who is also a person, a villain who might also be a victim.
Starling House - Alix E. Harrow

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"Hi", I say, very awkwardly, because I don't know what you're supposed to say to a girl who is also a grown woman, a fictional character who is also a person, a villain who might also be a victim.
Starling House - Alix E. Harrow
"All these streams and rivers making their way back to the source, to the goal, to the collective vision of the sea. In building our movements, we learn this: we come from different places across the country and world, we face different obstacles, paths, twists, and turns -- some of us reshaping the very rocks beneath us, some of us moving the rocks with our combined strength, and some of us going around them when they can't be moved and finding another path to our desired goal. I've learned that those of us with the same dreams can find each other, and in finding each other, we can learn to move together, to build together, to shape the world together, to flow together, and maybe, just maybe...together we can reach the sea."
- Desiree Evans
比喩によって聞き手が想起する具体的なイメージはコミュニケーションのレベルにはなく、それゆえ話し手と聞き手の約束事には含まれていない。けれど、話し手にとって都合のよいイメージを聞き手が想起することを狙って、話し手が比喩を用いることはあります。
「それも前に聞かせてもらった。実際、飽きがくるな、きみという人間は」
わたしたちは笑って取っ組み合って、絡み合った。その体勢は図解にされてなぞなぞの本に載り、マッカーサー助成金が二回出されてようやく解かれたけど、その答えが愛の神秘を損なうおそれがあって、公表されることはなかった。
「将来のために現在を犠牲にするなんておおまちがいだ! 現在には若さがあり、健康があり、炎がある。未来なんてものはね、 煙と誤摩化しにすぎません!」
「デイジーを愛しているとわかって、我ながらどれくらい驚いたか、言葉では言い表せないよ、オールド・スポート」
「自分が恥ずかしい。私がどれくらい自分を恥じているか、あなたにはきっとわからないわ。嘘をつきながら、あなたがそれを信じてくれなければいいのにと思っていたの」